coquet

Example Sentences

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A: I'm afraid I was a bit of a coquet in my youth, but now that I'm a grandmother with an 18-year-old granddaughter, I'm simplifying what I wear.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2010

“Peter ywotisk, Peter kekoosh, moyout win coquet talenque.”

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon

His Letters shew him to have lived in a continual fever of petty vanity, and to have been a finished literary coquet.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

His wings moved so slowly he seemed to fly without pressure on the air—as slowly as a lady fans herself when there is no one to coquet with.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

I am not quite the heartless coquet I seem.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna